User:Justin Bacon
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[edit] Some Stuff I've Done
- Carthage, first major expansion of the article
- Added dynasty templates to the rulers of Persia
- Dungeons & Dragons, helped clean-up and maintain this article, hoping to eventually get it to featured article quality
- Persia disambiguation repair.
- Expanded Universe (Star Wars), did a major expansion and clean-up on the article.
You can also visit me at The Alexandrian.
[edit] Some Material from Dungeons & Dragons
The following material was removed from the Dungeons & Dragons article in an attempt to consolidate and clarify the article. This information was largely duplicated in other portions of the article already, and I incorporated much of the rest of the information throughout the article before deleting it. It's included here for reference:
Several manuals are required for D&D. The current Dungeons & Dragons requires three core rulebooks: the Player's Handbook, the Dungeon Master's Guide, and the Monster Manual. While variations of these three books have formed core manuals since the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, many and varied optional manuals have existed for all editions.
Third Edition Dungeons & Dragons greatly clarified and streamlined the rules, and for the first time clearly labeled the three core rulebooks as such. The v3.5 edition made some previous rulebooks obsolete, however others are still almost fully compatible with the revision. There were new editions of the core books. The Psionics Handbook was replaced with the Expanded Psionics Handbook. The third edition's had five softcover rulebooks focusing on character classes were updated into four revised and expanded hardcover rulebooks for 3.5 edition.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1st edition) was the first manual based game, other early editions were boxed sets. The popularity of the first three harback manuals the Monster Manual(1977), the Players Handbook(1978), and the Dungeon Master's Guide (1979), encouraged TSR to publish over a dozen hardbound sourcebooks. The first edition manuals are highly prized by collectors, early printings in good condition can fetch prices many times their cover value.
2nd edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in 1989 saw a complete revision of the Players Handbook and the Dungeon Master Guide. The Monster Manual replaced by the Monstrous Compedium loose leaf binder which was in turn replaced by the Monstrous Manual (1993). Expansion manuals for 2nd Edition included softcover handbooks for almost every race and class as well as other sourcebooks sourcebooks, providing new versions of rules, items, spells, or creatures. The Player's Option series of rulebooks in the mid-1990s introduced many optional rules into the game and were interpreted by many players as an intended "third edition" of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
